Daughter of the Plateau by Karen Harrland | PB Architecture and the rhythm of footsteps

and the rhythm of footsteps on sand

suburbs and rural towns to the natural environment

that they can count

fistfights

but when you read this you might be surprised: that is not really so long ago

Daughter of the Plateau by Karen Harrland | PB Architecture and the rhythm of footstepsFrom the author of Spinifex Baby, winner of the National 2014 Finch Memoir Prize. What does it mean to have no place to call home, and no family to turn to? Manna, named for the regal white gums and yellow tailed black cockatoos of the Central Highlands of Tasmania, was a wild, strong, fiercely independent child. But Mannas life was torn apart, first by her mothers abandonment, then by her fathers coldness. Craving connection, yet wounded by her past,